Adobe Premiere adds XAVC support!

About a month ago I saw a demo of the coming Adobe Premiere upgrade but was asked to keep a lid on until now. I was really interested to see if the software only machine would playback 4K XAVC footage from the F55. It played (on a maxed out HP laptop) back the 4K footage in full resolution without any problems. Even more so, it scrubbed the footage like it was a 25Mbit/s DVstream, not a 300Mbit/s 4K stream!! It updated the timeline window as fast as I could move the cursor and played back instantly when I hit play. I was blown away!

This release will add full XAVC support (all flavours) to Prelude, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder but with read-only at first. As for Speedgrade there is more surprises ahead…
Playback will require some pretty heavy system requirements to playback 4K 50/60+ fps but the support is there. Just in time for NAB, how lucky is that…. 😉

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mskogstrom

I work as Director of Photography based in sweden. One of my main strengths is finding the best possibilities for a chosen location, lighting it in a given time frame and producing images meeting, and hopefully exceeding the producers vision.
After more than 15 years of working with the moving image I still enjoy the challange of getting “the shot” and seeing the light
I own/run a production company in Malmo Sweden, www.pixeltouch.se
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